I quite enjoy it when a horse is disregarded by television pundits, as with Rubaud yesterday, and then goes on to prove them the muppets that perhaps they are. Tom Scudamore and Mick Fitzgerald, as respected and talented as jockeys as they were, have...

No one seems concerned that the long and unbroken run of the Badger Beer Chase, I believe the longest running sponsored National Hunt race at present, has come to an end, and that in these tough financial days has anone asked if the Woodhouse family ...

I was surprised as anyone when it was announced that Godolphin had acquired Billy Loughnane as a retained rider. I thought it was inevitable that Godolphin would want Loughnane 'on their team' in the near future but for him to immediately become equa...

I am uncertain if Britain, Ireland and Europe have a race to match the Melbourne Cup. Obviously the Cheltenham Festival is unmatched anywhere in the world, as well as Royal Ascot. Yet the Melbourne Cup, though it may not stop a nation as it would bac...

Simon Cox, head man at the B.H.A. (there is something wrong with 'chair', don't you think, almost derogatory, the chair of the B.H.A.. I was about to write that it is not as if the people who assemble with him around a table and called tablers. Then ...

What more can anyone say about Ryan Moore? In my long experience of the flat, over sixty-years, he is, in my opinion, the best of the best. When Frankie was riding, I ebbed and flowed on whether he or Ryan was the better. Ryan was always the more con...